Improvement in sap-bucket hooks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES BULLOCK, OF READSBOROUGH, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAP-BUCKET HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,611 dated June 19, 1866.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES BULLocK, of Readsborough, in the county of Bennington and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Sap-Bucket Hook; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists of a hook made of wire, of iron or other material, of sufficient strength to hold up a bucketful of sap.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct a hook of wire of about oneeighth of an inch in diameter and two feet long, as shown at A in the drawing. I sharpen each end of the wire to a point and bend it around in the form of a hook about half an inch from the points. These hooks are to attach to the tree, as represented at E E. I then bend the wire in the center, or half the distance from each point, around so as to form a double wire about two and a half inches, as at O, and twist the double once around, as at B. Ithen bend the double wire about three-fourths of an inch from the double end in the form of a hook, as at G, to receive and hold the sap-bucket. I then bend the wire from the twist at D to the heel of the points in the form of a circle, with the points horizontal with the circle and distant from each other sufficient to attach to a tree on each side.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The form of three hooks combined in one piece of wire in the circle.

JAMES BULLOCK.

Witnesses:

M. B. BISHOP, E. L. BIsHoP. 

